Award demonstrates Colt’s commitment to delivering the highest levels of availability to customers
Colt, Europe’s leading information platform, has been awarded the Uptime Institute’s Tier III Certification of Design Documents for two halls inside its London 3 facility. The award certifies that the design meets all the requirements set out by the Institute’s global benchmarking system for Concurrent Maintainability and thereby minimises the risk of a service disruption by ensuring 99.98 percent uptime capability.
The Tier III Design Certification is an independent assessment of the capability of the design to continue to sustain computer room operations during any maintenance activity. This requires considerable attention to detail in the design and is awarded only to the best in class.
“Colt’s modular design approach to enterprise-class availability, as demonstrated by the Uptime Institute’s Tier III Design Certification, demonstrates an important step forward for the industry—a robust infrastructure solution with rapid speed of deployment,” says Vince Renaud, Uptime Institute Senior Tier Certification Authority. “The rigorous review inherent to Uptime Institute Design Certification assures clients that each and every detail of a high-availability design is in place.”
“Colt’s flagship facility in London is renowned for its operational excellence, state-of-the-art technology, resilience and security,” says Guy Ruddock, VP Design and Delivery at Colt. “As the international language of accountability and certification for the data centre industry, this award distinguishes Colt from self-certified data centre providers, whose Tier III claims for concurrent maintainability are often dubious.”
Colt’s unique modular approach is carried throughout the design of UPS and Critical Cooling Systems. This allows the maintenance, removal or replacement of critical components without affecting the resilience levels, therefore still being fully resilient against a single failure without the cost of installing 2N+1 infrastructure.
Earlier this year Colt became the first data centre operator in Europe to be accredited with the Uptime Institute’s Management & Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval which it was awarded for its London 3 site.
London 3 is one of Colt’s flagship facilities and is renowned for its operational excellence, state-of-the-art technology, resilience and security. Sited 40km (25 miles) from the centre of London, the facility potentially provides over 10,500m2 of data centre space with a total power provision of 33 MVA. The facility is just outside of London’s major ring-road, the M25. This means that if there is an emergency lock-down across London, or the M25 has been completely closed, the data centre is still accessible.
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About Colt Modular Data Centres
- Deliver highly flexible, fully operational data centre halls to customers in less than four months
- Data halls are available in 125m2, 250m2 and 375m2 or multiple combinations of each model in addition to the 500m2 standard size
- The data centres are fully flexible and can be built to a range of customer defined criteria
- Can be delivered to either a Colt or customer-owned site
- Innovative award winning design
To read more information about Colt Data Centre services visit www.colt.net/dcs and watch our videos on www.youtube.com/ColtTechnology
About Colt
Colt is the information delivery platform for Europe, enabling its customers to deliver, share, process and store their vital business information. An established leader in delivering integrated computing and network services to major organisations, midsized businesses and wholesale customers, Colt operates a 22-country, 43,000km network that includes metropolitan area networks in 39 major European cities with direct fibre connections into 18,000 buildings and 20 Colt data centres (one in development).
In 2010, the Colt Data Centre Services business was launched to deliver innovative high quality modular data centres which are rapid to deploy and power efficient.
Colt is listed on the London Stock Exchange (COLT). Information about Colt and its services can be found at www.colt.net.
About Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute, The Global Data Center Authority, is an unbiased, third-party data center research, education and consulting organization focused on improving data center performance and efficiency in data center design, management, and operations. The Institute serves all stakeholders of the data center industry, including enterprise and third-party operators, manufacturers, providers and engineers. Uptime Institute Professional Services is the data center management and engineering consulting arm of Uptime Institute. It delivers due diligence assessments and Certifications of site infrastructure and site management in accordance with the Tier and Operational Sustainability Standards. Serving clients worldwide, Uptime Institute Professional Services is delivering consulting, Certifications and Accreditations in over 50 countries. For additional information, see Uptime Institute. Uptime Institute has key offices in UK, Dubai, Singapore, Sao Paulo, New York, Denver, and Seattle.
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